This is ignoring what I've gotten for myself. A bunch of old 8-bit nintendo games, a steering wheel for the PS2, a Sega Genesis, and a much cleaner front room. I managed to clear out a number of boxes. We moved the TV out to the front room along with all the game systems. I set up Tesla (which I've been meaning to do for a while) and one of my xterms (Kirk).

This makes the kittens a bit happier, I think. They seem to enjoy the ability to run around the couch again.

Many people wonder why my name on LJ is testing4l. I used to have a system called littlegreenmen. It was a fun, little box that I put together and it lasted me quite some time. It was a dual P-III 800 MHz. At some point, littlegreenmen went down mysteriously.

The diagnosis was probably a bad capacitor. The short caused a chain reaction which fried a couple of inductance coils and that pretty much did it for that board.

I tried a couple of other ones, but alas, no motherboard could handle P-3s at >500 MHz. Even the ones I tried were quite noisy. One eventually corrupted hard drives. Since then, littlegreenmen has been dormant. I replaced it with boogeyman and boogeyman has responded both to b.armory.com, boogeyman.armory.com and littlegreenmen's DNS entries of l.armory.com and littlegreenmen.armory.com

Well -- I spotted an ebay auction for the exact same board. 14 hours to go, it was $9.99 with $15 for shipping. I was fortunate enough to be the only bid.

So littlegreenmen will be up and running again 8) Hooray!

Oh -- and before I forget -- relsqui said she couldn't get email on l from livejournal, so I opened an account to comment at and see if I could get mail.

There are at least three more packages to come and I'm about to get myself another present....but more on that later!

I'm going to try and make a point of hitting Berkeley and Santa Cruz for folk who want to hang out in the meantime. I haven't seen a lot of people for far too long 8)